Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-13
BRIEFS.

Potato bugs are reauy io'
circuit Court begins next Tuesday
~. strawberry is working this way.
,.D.rasus is ripe and rhubarb pies
are seasOnaole'
The wild flowers along the river GINS
gre at their prettiest now
vr nc. Marter has his hands full
..rl. If tin roofing and spouting.
r =. Hodges wants 10000 pounds of
~ for which he will pay the highest
price.
r,0 Town Council has reduced the
..rss from 80 to 40 cents on the hundred
dollars.
vr William Exner, of Harper's Fer
49, has been granted patent for water
cutoff and spout.
We are indebted to Judge j. Q. A.
vs,cslf. of Palmyra, Mo-, for copies of
newspapers from that place.
I. there anything on top of the green
..r,b prettier than the Shepherdstown
Girls in their new spring suits:
Don't forged that Towner schley is
,,snt for the Very best corn fertilizer.
Read advertisement on fourth page.
carload of strawberries passed
through Shepherdstown from the south
Monday morning en- route for New
York.
Dr. Tanner has piked the sidewalk
.ronnd his stable-a considerable i'm
,rovement on the mud-hole of years
gone by.
The Shepherd Fire Department was
out for practice on Tuesday evening.
All the apparatus was in first-class
working order.
The Potomac has been muddy all of
this month. This is good thing for
snorrsmen. as it will give the bass a
chance to spawn.
This is a splendid season for grass,
and the prospects are that big crop Of
hay will be gathered. The clover is
looking particularly well.
II is said that General Sheridan has
given ND his intended trip through the
shenandoah Valley. The letter of
General Rosser settled him.
Quite number of the newspapers Of
the State are making improvements in
their appearance and contents. We are
Glad to notice such enterprise.
Mr.. Charles b. Lines house on high
street has been improved with a new
roof, new eather-boarding, &c. Capt.
II. F. Barnhart did the work.
Sunday, the 18th, will be "Children's
Day" in the NJ. E. Church South. APP
propriate services will be held at Shep-
herdstown and Marvin Chapel.
Mr.. John 4. Colston, of CharlestOwn,
this county, has been appointed and
confirmed as one of the directors of the
West Virginia Insane Asylum.
Potomac Building Association No. 2
will offer for sale several shares of stock
next Monday evening in Mr.. G. M.
BelizhOOver's office at 8 o'clock.
The miserable, low-lived, unprin-
cipled, impudent English sparrows are
eating the seeds and plants in the gar
dens as fast as they can be planted.
The father of Capt. Frank z. Cord, of
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, died
at Hayre de Grace, Nd, on Monday.
Capt. Cords mother died March 9th.
The severe storm last week disar-
ranged TO a considerable extent the
Emmner telephone line, and a number
Of the instruments were pu. out OF
order.
Mr.. Will C. Daniels, of Duffields, is
agent for the Plano steel frame har-
yester and binder, and farmers will do
well to examine his goods before pur-
chasing.
There has been quite enough rain for
all ordinary purposes during the past
week-most too much for the farmers,
who are behindhand with their corn
planting.
FOrepaugh's show at Martinsburg last
Friday was attended by a large crowd.
many of whom were from this county.
The show was one of the best ever seen
in Martinsburg.
The native song birds, such us the
redbird, robin, catbird, wren, &C., seem
to be more numerous this year than us
ual. 1t is Il pity they can't combine to
drive away the sparrows.
The New York World speaks of Sena-
WI QUINTET ds uciHS NchCIa oiO "hN
aged, and tells of offices he has filled
thirty years ago. 1t evidently got the
young judge COMPOUNDED with his de-
ceased father.
We advise our friends to put up at the
II. Clair Hotel when they visit Martins
burg. Under the management of Messrs.
Brown Il Cooper, tw very able hotel
men, the st. Clair is run in better style
Than II has been for many years.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, a lady 20 years OF
age, committed suicide at Bellevue
Asylum, Hagerstowm, last Saturday
night by struggling herself to Gcath with
her apron strings. She was resident
OF RohrerSville. Washington county.
Corner longing is IA most disgraceful
preceding in itself, but the squirting
oil tobacco juice over the pavements over
which ladies must pass, and in doing
which Uather tha filth on their dresses